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News Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Week’s Headlines

Last week, the question about women in Saudi Arabia had the highest share of correct answers, with 99 percent. Only 56 percent knew which former Trump administration official was planning a TV talk show.

An image from a video taken by a Thai Navy SEAL member shows some of the boys in the cave.Royal Thai Navy

A soccer team of 12 boys and their coach who had become trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand were found alive on Monday.

How many days had they been underground when they were found?

3

5

10

18

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Voters in Mexico.Mario Vazquez/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Last Sunday’s presidential election in Mexico put a leftist at the helm of Latin America’s second-largest economy for the first time in decades.

What is the name of the country’s president-elect?

Ricardo Anaya

Andrés Manuel López Obrador

Antonio Meade

Jaime Rodríguez

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Al Drago for The New York Times

The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it had rescinded seven Obama-era policy guidelines that it said “advocate policy preferences and positions beyond the requirements of the Constitution.”

Chancellor Angela Merkel staked her legacy on welcoming hundreds of thousands of migrants into Germany.

But in a striking turnabout, she agreed on Monday to build border camps for asylum seekers and to tighten the border with which country, as part of a political deal to save her government?

Austria

Belgium

The Netherlands

Poland

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Dr. Arvid Carlsson and his wife, Ula, after learning he would receive the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.Reuters

Dr. Arvid Carlsson, a Nobel-winning Swedish scientist, died last Friday at the age of 95.

Dr. Carlsson determined the critical role that dopamine plays in the the basal ganglia, the part of the brain that controls movement. His research led to the development of drugs that treat what condition?

Alzheimer’s disease

Meningitis

Multiple sclerosis

Parkinson’s disease

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The leader of the Supreme Court, Malgorzata Gersdorf, during protests on Tuesday.Agencja Gazeta/Reuters

The government of which country carried out a sweeping purge of its Supreme Court on Tuesday, leading to street protests and the judges refusing to recognize their dismissal?

Bulgaria

Hungary

Poland

Romania

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Drew Angerer/Getty Images

An embassy in Washington warned tourists last Saturday about traveling to the U.S. because of “highly frequent” gun violence.

The notice issued by the embassy also said robberies and burglaries were common in the U.S., and advised travelers to be cautious of “suspicious” people there.

Which country’s embassy issued the warning?

China

France

Russia

Sweden

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The composer in his Army uniform during World War I, when he wrote “God Bless America.”Rodgers & Hammerstein Organization

For the Independence Day holiday in the U.S. on Wednesday, we looked at the origin of “God Bless America,” an unofficial national anthem.

The song was composed in 1918 by a former refugee who came to the U.S. as a child.

Name him.

Irving Berlin

George Gershwin

Richard Rodgers

John Philip Sousa

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Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba in New York in 1960.Allyn Baum/The New York Times

Belgium has renamed a square in Brussels after Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what was once the country’s largest and most profitable colony in Africa.

The ceremony on Saturday came 58 years to the day after Mr. Lumumba declared his country’s independence.

By what name is the country known today?

Burundi

Central African Republic

Democratic Republic of Congo

Rwanda

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The Cleveland skyline.Tony Cenicola/The New York Times

Given this week’s news, which city comes next in this chronologically ordered list?

Cleveland, Miami, Cleveland,

Chicago

Dallas

Los Angeles

Seattle

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Ta-Nehisi Coates in 2015.Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times

After reinvigorating the “Black Panther” comic book series, the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates is working on a new series, the first issue of which was published on Wednesday.